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... gives to all their food ; and at his word all must die . God made all men , and all things . He made the poor man , as well as the rich man . He made the dark man , as well as the fair man . All should love God and do his will . Trees ...
... gives to all their food ; and at his word all must die . God made all men , and all things . He made the poor man , as well as the rich man . He made the dark man , as well as the fair man . All should love God and do his will . Trees ...
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... give gränt left right be wail wail moan more less com pel drive force meet pärt con vert change turn north south de spoil strip rob old new im merse whelm plunge pain ease in fleet bend erook praise blame la ment mourn grieve prow stern ...
... give gränt left right be wail wail moan more less com pel drive force meet pärt con vert change turn north south de spoil strip rob old new im merse whelm plunge pain ease in fleet bend erook praise blame la ment mourn grieve prow stern ...
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... give re vere pär don hon or al lot ' ae cost ad judge pre judge dis band dis chärge dis elose dis course dis gust dis mäsk con trōl eon duet as sign ad dress a ward fore judge dis miss re lease re veal con verse dis please un mäsk re ...
... give re vere pär don hon or al lot ' ae cost ad judge pre judge dis band dis chärge dis elose dis course dis gust dis mäsk con trōl eon duet as sign ad dress a ward fore judge dis miss re lease re veal con verse dis please un mäsk re ...
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... Єop y write whole bro ken de fv chal lenge dare cheap cost ly här bor shel ter lodge dead a live ' glo ry ex ult ' boast now prae tice per form dö give never re ceive ' Species of plants . Nouns . ad ' age prov TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 47.
... Єop y write whole bro ken de fv chal lenge dare cheap cost ly här bor shel ter lodge dead a live ' glo ry ex ult ' boast now prae tice per form dö give never re ceive ' Species of plants . Nouns . ad ' age prov TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 47.
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... give light and heat to orbs , none of which is half as large as the sun is . The The earth goes round the sun once in a year . moon goes round the earth once in a month , and both re- ceive their light and heat from him . What a sad ...
... give light and heat to orbs , none of which is half as large as the sun is . The The earth goes round the sun once in a year . moon goes round the earth once in a month , and both re- ceive their light and heat from him . What a sad ...
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accent adjectives adverbs antepenult bär cate ceive cent cial cif er ous cious cir eum column con test defined denotes its sound dent drol elam elean ence equi fore ful ly ful ness fy-ing-cation härd härm jeet leet lence less LESSON letters mean ment möve ness Nouns ol o gy ous ly pär pärt penult pertaining port preter primitive word Quadrupeds ra phy ri ous Rule ship sion sive sound as heard spell subvocal suffix syllable TABLE tain ting tion tive trans treach tude turb ture ty un vate verbs vert vocals
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Page 116 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel...
Page 99 - March, the sun rises- exactly in the east, and sets exactly in the west.
Page 151 - If you have an enemy act kindly to him, and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed by another...
Page 3 - ... Letters and Spelling, let him learn these and such like Sentences by Heart." By the 1830s, however, spelling was under challenge, and textbooks rushed to redefine its value as literacy instruction. Salem Town's Spelling and Defining Book (1838) insisted that "a child being taught, both to read and to spell, should be taught, at the same time, to understand what he reads...
Page 151 - The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science, and too hilly for happiness.
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Page 158 - Punctuation and Capital Letters. PUNCTUATION. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, to mark the different pauses which the sense requires. The principal points are the Comma, thus , Interrogation, thus ? Semicolon, ; Exclamation, ! :. • Colon...
Page 80 - ve seen him drop To call our robin in; The line that held his pretty kite, His bow, his cup and ball, The slate on which he learned to write, His feather, cap, and all!